Active COVID-19 cases in Bulgaria fall below 1,000

The number of active COVID-19 cases in Bulgaria has dropped below 1,000 for the first time since April 25, the country’s Health Ministry said on its website on Saturday morning.

The number of active cases in the Balkan country decreased to 980 after 41 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed across the country in the last 24 hours, taking the total to 2,668, while the number of recoveries from COVID-19 rose by 138 to 1,528, the ministry said.

Active COVID-19 cases in Bulgaria fall below 1,000

The number of active COVID-19 cases in Bulgaria has dropped below 1,000 for the first time since April 25, the country’s health ministry said on its website Saturday morning.

The number of active cases in the Balkan country decreased to 980, after 41 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed across the country in the last 24 hours, taking the total to 2,668, while the number of recoveries from COVID-19 rose by 138 to 1,528, the ministry said.

The death toll from COVID-19 rose from 159 to 160, the ministry said, adding that 147 patients are currently hospitalized, with 12 in intensive care.

Over half of Bulgaria COVID-19 patients now recovered

According to the ministry, 25 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed across the country in the last 24 hours, taking the total to 2,585, while the nationwide tally of recoveries reached 1,322 after another 116 recoveries were reported.

Currently, 141 patients are hospitalized, with eight in intensive care, while the death toll now stands at 147 after one more patient died in the last 24 hours, it added.

The foreigners, including seven men, a woman and a 16-year-old boy, said they were from Afghanistan. Three of them were treated at a local hospital, but their lives were not in danger, the ministry said, adding an investigation is underway.

Rose Queen selected online for first time in Bulgarian town

This year’s Rose Queen was selected online for the first time in the central Bulgarian town of Kazanlak on Monday, the organizers said in a press release.

Kazanlak was known for its Rose Festival, which has been organized annually since 1903. The festival celebrates local residents’ deep connection to the Rosa Damascena — the Bulgarian oil-bearing rose — for centuries.

Another 320 kg of cocaine seized in Bulgarian capital

Bulgarian law enforcement authorities on Tuesday seized about 320 kg of cocaine in the capital city, officials said here on Wednesday.

Antoaneta Pancheva, spokesperson of the Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office, said that the illicit drug, split into 327 packets, was discovered in an apartment used by a man in whose car 39.7 kg of cocaine were found on May 24.

As many as 248 of the packets were placed in a wardrobe in the bedroom, and 79 in a dresser in the kitchen, Pancheva said at a press conference.

Bulgaria seizes over 100 kg of heroin at border, three arrested

Bulgarian customs officers at the country’s Kapitan Andreevo checkpoint near the border with Turkey have seized 100.44 kg of heroin and arrested three suspects, authorities said here on Monday.

The drug, split into 200 packets, was found on Sunday night in the driver’s cab of a truck carrying auto parts to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), the National Customs Agency and the country’s Prosecutor’s Office said in a joint statement.

Authorities estimated that the value of the heroin on the black market would exceed 5 million U.S. dollars.